By EDWARD
PEAKING in advogacy of the admin-
istration's substitute farm bil},
Senator Norris, the independent Re-
publican from Nebraska, scathingly at-
tacked the Supreme
court's AAA decision
and urged congress to
use its right to curb
the court's power. He
argued that the 6 to 3
decision itself was un-
constitutional by the
court's own reasoning
and shouted “It can-
not stand.”
“The regulation
agricultural produc
tion, they say, is un-
constitutional because
not mentioned in the Constitution,”
Norris asserted. “Nowhere In that
great document is there a syllable, a
word, or a sentence giving to any
court the right to declare an act of
congress unconstitutional. Hence,
when the court indulges in that pas-
time it Is itself violating the Constitu-
tion according to its own words.”
Norris quoted from the majority
opinion of the Supreme court holding
that the regulation and control of
agricultural production was a local af-
fair reserved to the states and beyond
the power of congress. Under that de-
cision, he declared, not only the pend-
ing bill but “a large portion of the
laws which congress has passed dur-
ing the last hundred years are abso-
lutely unconstitutional.”
Of the later decision ordering return
of processing taxes to the processors,
the senator sald Secretary Wallace
perhaps was too severe in calling it
the greatest legalized steal In history,
and added: “But it is a gift, the
greatest gift since God made salvation
free.”
Norris
of
Senator
Norris
urged that congress
¢
of the legislative branch of
ernment,
the gov-
INCOLN day was the occasion for
a flood
publican opponents of the
Eerbert Hoover
Ore. the
of oratory, largely by Re
New Deal
spoke at Portland,
of Union,”
a state of confusion
on “State the
which he sald was
in thought, govern
and the ideals of liberty. “The New
Deal” sald the former President, “has
1 fountain of fear.
economic life
ment,
been a veritable
The day after the New Deal was given
life at the election of 1032 began the
great fear which created the bank
panic of March 4. The stock boom
today Is not from confidence in the
future; it Is partly from fear of In-
flation.™
In Greensboro, N. C., Senator Dick-
inson of lowa warmly defended the
Supreme court as “the only remaining
guardian of the liberty of the people,”
and inveizhed against what he said
was the New Deal's “planned econ-
omy” and its “attempted bribery of
the states” through the invalidated
AAA and its proposed substitute, the
soil conservation measure,
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
was a speaker in New York city, and
ike his fellow Republicans he fiercely
assailed the administration, terming
it the “third party now in power.”
Among the few leading Democrats
heard was Secretary Wallace, who, in
Indianapolis, defended the administra.
tion. Referring to the Constitution, he
declared that "most of us” thought
the agriculture adjustment act was
valid, and “some ef us, Including three
justices of the Supreme court, think
so still.”
HARLES CURTIS, former Vice
President of the United States and
before that representative and sena-
tor from Kansas, died suddenly of
heart disease at the
Washington home of
his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs
Edward E. Gann. He
was seventy-six years
old, and was the first
man of Indian blood
ever to preside over
the senate. He was
one-quarter Kaw In
dian, his grandmother
having been Princess
Julle of that tribe who Charles
married a French voy. Curtis
sgeur. In his boyhood Curtis was a
Jockey, and later a reporter. Having
studied law, he became a prosecutor
at the age of twenty-four in Shawnee
county, Kansas, and was elected to
congress in 1802. He was made sen
ator In 1907, was defeated in 1912,
and two years later was again elected
senator, He was elected Vice Presi.
dent on the ticket headed by Herbert
Hoover, and was renominated for that
position in 1932
Mr. Curtis was greatly liked by his
associates in Washington and his death
caused genuine grief. President Roose:
velt sald:
“l am deeply distressed to learn of
the sudden passing of my old friend,
Charles Curtis, Whether they knew
him as a senator, us the Vice Presi.
dent of the United States, or as the
man he was .n his own right, his le.
gion of friends will remember him,
always affectionately, and will mourn
his pnssing.”
W. PICKARD
Vice President Garner sald:
“I was always fond of him. I was
associated with him in the house and
senate, He was a fine man and a
good friend.”
Funeral services for Mr. Curtis and
the interment were in Topeka, Kan.
NCE again the Supreme court of
the United States comes to the
rescue of a free press. Unanimously
the nine justices ruled that the Loulsl-
ana law Imposing a punitive tax on the
advertising of the principal newspa-
pers of that state Is unconstitutional.
The law was passed by a legislature
controlled by the late Senator Huey
Long. The court sald of it:
“It is bad because, in the light of
its history and of its present setting,
it Is seen to be a deliberate and cal- |
culated device In the guise of a tax |
to limit the circulation of Information
to which the public is entitled in virtue
of the constitutional guarantee,
“A free press stands as one of the
great interpreters between the govern
ment and the people. To allow it to
be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
“In view of the persistent search
for new subjects of taxation, it is not
without significance that, with the
single exception of the Louisiana
statute, so far as we can discover, no
state during the 150 years of our na-
tional existence has undertaken to i
impose a tax like that now In ques |
tion.
“The form in which the tax is im.
posed is in itself suspicious. It Is not 9
measured or limited by the volume of
advertisement, It is measured alone
by the extent of the circulation of the
publication In which the advertise
ments are carried, with the plain pur.
pose of penalizing the publishers and
curtailing the circulation of a selected
group of newspapers.”
ETTERS have been sent by Pres.
Latin-American g
them to participate in a Pan-American
probably in
of which will be to
of the
State
conference, Washington,
the purpose or.
ganize the
western
peace machinery
hemisphere, Our
the
deavor to provide means for adj
tinonal by
means. The conference may
the Monroe Doctrine for a
partment says meeting
interna disputes
nition through multilateral
ment,
f the jon, |
an-
for.
war,
Bar
in
Newton
American
headquarters
that
assocat
with Chicago,
D. Baker,
mer secrefary of
has accepted
chairmanship of
association's
committee on co-oper- |
ation the |
press, bar
against publicity in.
terfering with fair
trial of Judicial nd
quasi-judicial proceed.
Lid 1) logs
The creation of this
N. D. Baker _ cial committee to
define standards to be recommended to
lawyers, newspapers and radio broad.
casters In the matter of publicity as to
court trials, said the announcement, is
an outcome of the incidents arising in
the course of the Bruno Hauptmann
trial and various proceedings before
governmental boards and bodies, “and
it is hoped that such standards can be
made effective through rules of court
or through legislation”
nounced
the
the |
specini
between
radio and
A SOoRDING to the London Dally
Herald, a secret decree providing
for expulsion of ail Jews from Ger.
many as rapidly as possible has been
prepared by Nazi leaders and laid be-
fore Chancellor Hitler for his signa-
ture, The paper sald the Sjeice pro.
vided for the confiscation of all prop-
erty of expelled Jews,
This story may not be true, but there
is no doubt that Hitler and his associ.
ates are determined to extirpate all
the organizations and groups which
they consider !n opposition to the Nazi
regime, and Hitler himself has de-
clared the Jews are to blame for all
the troubles of the reich in recent
years, Scores of Catholic youth lead-
ers have been arrested, charged with
co-operation with lllegal Communist
groups, and it is predicted their or.
ganizations will be dissolved. The
campaign is carried on with great
secrecy. It was announced in Berlin
that distriet governors henceforth
would take orders from the Gestapo,
the secret state police. This was in
terpreted as an indication of an im
mediate carrying out of promises by
Nazl leaders for more ruthless, more
determined action against enemies
within the reich.
RESIDENT LAZARO CARDENAS
of Mexico went to Monterrey to
investigate a stoppage of business snd
industry in protest against Inbor trou.
bles attributed to Communists. He
issued this ultimatum: “Employers
who are fatigued by Mexico's social
and economic struggle ean turn over
their Industries to the workers or the
government-—that would be patriotic.
But stoppage of activities cannot be
countenanced "
THE
MERICA'S delegates to the naval
conference in London consented
to an agreement that would bind this
country for five years or more to re
fraln from bullding any more cruisers
in excess of 8,000 tons In size, When
the news reached Washington there
was Immediate and loud protest in
congress against what was termed a
“colossal blunder.”
High ranking navy officials refused
to comment officially upon the Lon-
don agreement, but sald privately that
any program which does not include
the co-operation of Japan and Ger-
many would be a fallure,
Any agreement will not affect the
navy's present building program, these
officials pointed out, and they refused
to be alarmed: about the prospect of
future limitations,
TRIAL of the assassins of King Al-
exander of Jugoslavia at Mar
gellles came to an end at Alx-en-Prov-
ence, France, with verdicts of guilty
for the six defendants, For three of
the band of members of the
secret Ustachl society, who were ap-
prehended, mercy was recommended
and they were given sentences of life
in French Guiana. The
never caught, were
One of the latter
Pavelich, reputed head of
Cronts,
imprisonment
others, who were
sentenced to death,
is Dr. Ante
the Ustachi,
Jun B. O'HARA, Democratic
-+ gtate chairman of Michigan and
former clerk of Wayne county, which
includes Detroit: State Senator A, J.
Wilkowskl and 18
others of lesser prom.
inence were convicted
in Detroit of having
attempted to steal the
1634 election. Eight
defendants in the re.
count case, which had
been on trial for
nearly 12 weeks, were
acquitted. Two other
defendants previously
had pleaded guilty,
Eimer B. thus bringing to 20
O'Hara the number facing sen-
tence for thelr part in the vote recount
conspiracy.
For O'Hara, the verdict come as
the culmination of a series of calaml-
ties in a brief political career. Last
November a jury in Macomb county,
adjacent to Wayne, found him gulity
of bribery In a drainage transaction in
with real estate deals he
before 1032 when he en-
ities and was elected Wayne
county clerk. He awaits sentence
under that conviction, After conviction
he was removed from office,
in the recount case O'Hara was found
three permitting
conspiring to
connection
had
made
3
1
pos
on counts,
rs alter ballots,
nit others to alter baliots, and con-
to permit others to conduct
recount in an unlawful manoer and
result the November
by putting Democrats
instead of the Repul licans
to
ge the of
election
EADIERS of congress hope for an
early adjournment, by May 1 at
the latest. and therefore they pushed
the new farm bill forward, trying to
get it through both houses without
In their to get
away from the Capital, they already
had decided to let the proposed per
delay. desire
much
board.
The farm bill as rewritten by the
senate agriculture committee is based
on the soil erosion prevention scheme.
Some Democrats joined with many He-
publieans i8 opposing the measure, one
in a statement issued to
the press he declared it was a “dan-
gerous” bill conferring “autocratic and
blanket authority” on the secretary of
agriculture. He sald the measure was
“neither valid In law nor valid In
economics.”
Chairman Doughton of the house
ways and means committee said he
expected definite word from the White
House or treasury soon on the amount
and kind of taxes that might be Im-
posed to finance the new farm pro.
gram.
Speaker Byrns sald he could see no
reason why the tax measure should
not emerge from the committee by the
end of February.
Ss —
CTION asgainst John J. Raskob,
former chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee when Al
Smith was the Presidential nominee,
and who is now presi.
dent of the American
Liberty league, has
been begun by the
government for an al-
leged deficiency of $1,-
026340 on his 1920
income taxes. The
claim was filled In an
amendment to the pe
tition recently filed
against Pierre 8, du £5 5
Pont two daye before rn
Al Smith bad bitterly Y- J Raskod
assailed the New Deal. In the petl-
tion, which Raskob described as “New
Deal persecution,” Mr, du Pont was
alleged to have understated his 1020
income by S$S2807832 and an addl
tional tax of $G17316 was asked, In
the amended petition accusing Me. |
Raskob, it was alleged that he and the |
industrialist engaged In “Sctitious”
sales of securities, one to the other,
to a total of about $30,000,000 for the
purpose of showing losses,
VRS HUEY P. LONG, widow of
the slain senator from Louisiana,
took her seat in the senate to complete
Huey's unfinished term, becoming the
second woman member of the upper
house. After eleven months she will
be succeeded by Allen Allender, speak.
er of the Louisiana house of represent
atives, who was nominated for the reg
ular term.
HALL, PA
.
By FLOYD
Famous Head
. [EORAES story, boys and girls,
want to tell you about an excitir
GIBBONS
line Hunter.
is from Norman Daly. But first 1
1g little ady }
enture of my old friend
and a friend of his were slummn
Apache quarter of Paris
looks from the motley
group of thie
every table,
An a French gar
a tribe of American Indians noted
a gunman, his Ar
of a long bladed knife which he carry
He ean throw th
i
“Apache” 1s igster,
for th
however, like
8 heavy knife wi
wr his
+3
i th un
3 ' ,
8 also noted fi
at 20 feet. Ie
Jed knew all this and as the A
ints
in the rear of the smoke filled room
had thrown it,
One table of roughs in particular
Americans, There
others by heaping insults on the “Americ
five of them
were
Jed Gave the Boys
Jed walked over to a door in the |
hundred franc bill, he pinned it to the «
man who plerced it first with a thrown
Zowie!
ting crash,
he's not sure.
afe in the
ves and pickpockets who crowded
The nis , comes from
elr eruelty. rene wiche 1s not
n et $1 vo 18 adert n the
Le
the 1 g of his baggy clothes,
idden in i
m’'s heart
anny skil plerce a victi
atred of all foreigners
paches had been drinking heavily,
Their table was far
and if they walked out they might
And no one would know who
were concentrating thelr hate on the
amused and
Jed pretended not to under-
He knew the Apache
bit on an idea.
and themselves the
an Pigs.”
they
ir skill with knives and
a Target, Anyway.
mck of the cafe
Then, as 50 sull
the bill would go to the
and taking out a one
loor, en eves followed
knife.
He and his friend went out the
And with Jed still ruani let's Ie
ng,
save Paris and go down to Nicaragua
it remained for the
in
RAYS,
marine in Nicaragua the summer
police force but, he
He was a
as he lay
wr of the Chicago
and one hot night
giretched on his back, puffing away on
disturbed his reverie.
as though a bee had quickly passed.
was a bullet!
a glowing cigar, a sudden pistol shot
buzzing sound,
tut Norman koew it wasn't a bee—it
tough pal of his about who was the
but he didn’t dare move.
His cigar was their target!
best shot.
He quaked in his boots
Bang! Another shot!
in his mouth. He pursed his lips to get
The bullets buzzed
3ut still his cigar remained
that lighted end as far out as possible
and Norman winced at each biast.
perves from breaking,
When 12 had passed and that
nearly swallowed cigar and all
fatal 13 was coming up, Norman
Thirteen came and passed. It
cigarl The next shot just passed
under Norman's nose and then a
The cigar had burst—like a Roman
Whew!
brow.
looked around.
with bated breath.
the Marine corps under fire, he grinned,
“Nice shooting, boys,” he said.
© WNU
candie—on the fifteenth shot!
He
Service,
“Mississippi Bubble” Was
Disastrous Speculation
The “Mississippi Bubble” was a
scheme devised by John Law, a famous
Scotch financier who lived from 1671
to 1720." Under the patronage of the
duke of Orleans, regent of France, he
organized a project intended original
ly to liquidate the nationnl debt of that
country by developing, under an ex-
clusive grant, the resources of the
province of Louisiane and the com.
merce of the Mississippi, then claimed
b¥ the French.
The scheme was launched In 1710
with the establishment of a bank. In
1717 the West Indian company was or-
ganized with a capital of 200,000
ghares of BOO livres cach, The com
pany was at first successful, and In
1710 obtained exclusive control of the
trade to the East Indies, China and the
South Seas, and all the possessions
of the French East India company.
The holders of West India shares
geemed likely all to profit tremen-
dously,
An additional jssue of 5,000 shares
was created, and so wild was the spec-
nlative craze that more than 300,000
persons applied for them. In conse
quence all of the shares rose to twenty
timex their original value, and at the
height of the excitement In 1710 were
nominally worth more than eighty
times the amount of all the currency
in France.
The company could not hope to
make a satisfactory profit for those
who had paid the preposterous prices
which speculative demand had put
upon the shares. Before a year was
out the “bubble” burst and the shares
sank to a tenth of thelr face value,
The whole enterprise was thus dis.
eredited, and the company was wound
up, while Law was obliged to flee; he
died in poverty in Venice,
So great were the losses, which were
in France rather than England, that
the collapse of the Mississippi scheme
nearly precipitated a revolution,
usually regarfed as the most disas-
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Why Physicions Recommend
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Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The Keswick Movement
The Keswick movement originated
in England in 1874 when Canon Har
ford-Battersly experienced a deep
spiritual awakening and, returning to
his parish church at Keswick, London,
called the Keswick convention In 1875
The movement was organized for the
promotion of practical holiness,
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